Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-27
THE PERENNIAL DOG DAYS.
The Effect of "a Craze That Has
Seized Some People.


AS we sailed down from Syracuse
fell asleep, but the old gentleman sitting
beside me grew so restless and fidgety that
be reused me. In the seat in front OF us
a lady and gentleman were carrying on
one of those intellectual conversations
that are evidently intended for the whole
car, and tend to make travel such rare
pleasure to a man who has Just escaped
from the asylum. | lost the opening chap
ters of the dialogue, but 1t was evident
that the lady wanted to buy "dawg,"
and the gentleman knew all about
'dawgs." she wanted setter.
Red or liver coloredW he asked.
"Uh," she didn't care; just so 1t was
handsome setter. II do so love beauti-
full setter. And l never had one, and /
just long for one"
WELL" he said, ''there are beautiful
dogs. couldn't live without dogs. There's
something so loving about dog"
$50 human" she SAID" $50 more than
human. There is nothing IN all This
world so devoted as dogs Affection"
THAT'S 50. A dogs love is perfectly
unselhsh If you feed him, he loves you,
II you beat him, he still loves YOU"
"Oh" she cried, chow eau anyone beat
dog! | hate man who can lie cruel TO
u dog"
$50 do /, pd shoot a man In a minute if
saw nim kick one OF my dogs. l have
seven dogs !"
son! how happy you must be.'
eyes, and there isn't a room in my
house too good Tor those dogs, and they
know it too. You know my big black
Newfoundland, st. Augustine LIE Clair e?
| paid 500 for hun. Well, he sleeps IN
my room and often he Climbs right up on
the bed and sleeps there"
son! ISN'T that too cunning for any,
thinG"
''Yes, my dogs live all over the house.
Then my wife has three dogs OF her own,
that makes ten altogether. 1t seems like
a good many"
But yet you couldn't spare one"
"Oh, no. The house would seem lonely
without them. They always welcome me
when / come home; they're always
glad TO see me. Last spring when my
Siberian bloodhound, Charlemagne, died,
| thought my wife would go wild. she
cried herself into hysteria, and went to
bed !; gave up society, put on mourning and
locked the piano. / couldn't eat anything
MY self for days. felt as though l had
lost son."
"You have children, haven't you, Mr..
KeunellthOrpe?
con, yes; 1 have three, two boys and
girl-no, two girls-nO, 20; what am |
thinking o.? They're all girls"
Here the Ola gentleman COllared me and
dragged me furiOusly into the smoking
car, where he backed me up against the
the wood box and held me tercely by the
collar.
That's the cause of hydrophobia." he
howled. "rhats the kind of stuff that
makes a man mad! The bite OF mad
dog is healing balm after such rot as that!
One hundred dollars for dog! Buy ali
the ours that ever yelpedl l can buy
4 TO-. 2 "a r.K,lr 10
and I'd kill him! Am rightp
| feebly said, Amen"
"You are saved" be said, relaxing his
hold, land now let us sit down and smoke
one OF tie train boys nOn-cOm bustible
cigars, for must nerve myself to deed
of awful justice"
'Whatis't you'll dO"'
81 am going to kill that man when he
gets of the train, and at the same time
you will kill the woman, or L shall kill
youP'
But when we got to Utica they rushed
the old gentleman of and took him to the
asylum. And | was the only man on the
train who kenw what drove him mad,